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Popular Airborne Supplement Settles Lawsuit With State of Indiana

According to MSNBC, Airborne, the popular cold and flu supplement, will have to pay $7 million to Indiana and 32 other states and desist from claiming that their product cures, improves, or prevents the common cold and the flu. Indiana will receive $460,000 of the sum, the entirety of which will be placed in the state's consumer protection fund for use in keeping Indianans healthy and safe.  

The product, which is a powder that users dissolve in water, was advertised in a deceptive manner, according to Indiana's Attorney General. Among the many claims made in TV commercials and print ads, Airborne was purported to cure allergies, cure the common cold, cure the flu, prevent sickness, and kill germs. Product that make such claims must prove the effectiveness of their drug to the Food & Drug Administration (FDA), which Airborne failed to do.

In reality, the product is a simple vitamin supplement that includes common ingredients such as Vitamins A, E, and C along with calcium and zinc.

"They were saying Airborne would actually prevent you from getting a cold as well as protect you from getting a cold," said Dr. Debbie Allen-Brown at St. Vincent Immediate Care.

The product not only made false - or at least unproven - claims, it also failed to warn pregnant women of the possible dangers of the supplement.

"There's no medication in there that's actually shown to do that," she said. "It's a mixture of Vitamin A, Vitamin C, E. There's magnesium, there's some calcium, zinc, those types of things mixed together."

The settlement came about after the defendants signed an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission as well as a private class action lawsuit. The class action lawsuit consisted of private individual consumers who may receive up to $29.5 million collectively as compensation.

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